MetaCHIP: community-level horizontal gene transfer identification through the combination of best-match and phylogenetic approaches.
Weizhi SongBernd WemheuerShan ZhangKerrin SteensenTorsten ThomasPublished in: Microbiome (2019)
MetaCHIP provides an opportunity to study HGTs among members of a microbial community and therefore has several applications in the field of microbial ecology and evolution. MetaCHIP is implemented in Python and freely available at https://github.com/songweizhi/MetaCHIP .